Lacing for articles of wearing-apparel



G. E. POSBURGH. LAGING FOR ARTICLES 01-" WEARING APPAREL.

No Model.)

No. 577,599. Patented Peb.2,3,1897.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

CALVIN E. FOSBURGH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TOEDGAR CHARLES FOSBURGH, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

LACING FOR ARTICLES OF WEARING-APPAREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,599, dated February23, 1897. Application filed May 20, 1896. Serial No. 592,275. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CALVIN E. FOSBURGH, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Lacings for Articles of Wearing-Apparel, of which thefollowing is a specification.

I will describe an article embodying my improvement, and then point outthe novel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,.Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoehaving my improvement embodied in it. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe shoe open. Fig. 3 is an inside view of a portion of the shoe. Fig. 4is a transverse section at the line 4 4, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates a shoe, which may be of any suitable construction, exceptthat it has an opening a, which is closed and secured by a lacing B.Inside the two edges 0. a of the opening a are strips 0 O preferably ofleather. These strips need only be fastened along'or close to the inneredge, so as to leave the upper of the shoe along the edges a at?extending outside and slightly beyond it as flaps. The strips 0 C havefitted to them pulley-blocks D. These pulley-blocks preferably consistseverally of two plate-like portions of sheet metal cl d united by anintegral intermediate neck 01 and secured to the strips 0 O and theedges a a by means of rivets. The plate-like portions (1 d embrace thestrips 0 O and the rivets e 6 may pass through the plates and throughthe strips 0 C The rivet 6 may pass through the edges a of theshoe-upper without passing through the strips 0 O The rivets e areprovided with pulleys D. Laces or a lace pass around the pulleys andthrough the pulley-blocks, so as to cross the opening a of the shoe. Bypulling on these laces the side edges of the opening a may be drawntogether and secured. This may be done Very quickly, because there willbe no appreciable friction.

By the term rivet as used herein I wish to comprehend all devices of thenature of a rivet, even if integral with a pulley-block.

Obviously my improvement may be applied to other articles of apparel.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination with an article of wearin g-apparel havingan opening,of a lacing for securing the opening, strips arranged inward of theopening, so that the edges of the opening will constitute flaps, andpulley-blocks secured to such strips and receiving the lacing,

substantially as specified.

2. The combination with an article of wearing-apparelhaving an opening,of a lacing for securing the opening, strips arranged inward of theopening so that the edges of the opening will constitute flaps, andpulley-blocks secured to such strips and receiving the lacing, therivets d d securing the pulley-blocks to the said strips, and the rivet01 supporting the pulleys and securing the pulley-block to the edges ofthe flap-like edges of the said opening, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my. name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' CALVIN E. FOSBURGH.

Witnesses:

EDWIN H. BRowN, ANTHONY GREF.

